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POSTDATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they postdate ... he / she / it postdates
Past simple: postdated
Past participle: postdated
-ing form: postdating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Establish something as being later relative to something else
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "postdate" is one way to...):
chronologise; chronologize (establish the order in time of something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
predate (establish something as being earlier relative to something else)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be later in time
Example:
Tuesday always follows Monday
Synonyms:
follow; postdate
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Verb group:
come after; follow (come after in time, as a result)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Antonym:
predate (be earlier in time; go back further)
